Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Korea South and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ten City to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Victims. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Schoolly D,
Toni Rubio,
Peter & Gordon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roxette,
Tomorrow,
Ornette Coleman,
Eddi Front,
Fugazi,
The Grass Roots,
Boredoms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Laurel Aitken,
Dark Day,
Eric Dolphy,
Sixth Finger,
Ludus,
The J.B.'s,
Lou Christie,
Dave Gahan,
Howard Jones,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
Talk Talk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alphaville,
Echospace,
LL Cool J,
Blake Baxter,
Deakin,
Cybotron,
Japan,
Jerry's Kids,
EPMD,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Josef K,
The Associates,
the Human League,
The Beau Brummels,
Charles Mingus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
X-102,
The Victims,
Underground Resistance,
Altered Images,
The Mummies,
Interpol,
Eden Ahbez,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Five Americans,
Cheater Slicks,
Radio Birdman,
La Düsseldorf,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.